74 Potatoes 



potato when cooked in this way. They require 

 only twenty minutes for boiling. 



Potatoes should not be dug until they are mature 

 unless you are willing to have quite a bit of waste. 

 They should always be dug on a dry day and they 

 will be clean and easily washed. 



Dug potatoes will turn green if exposed to the sun 

 too long, hence they should be stored away as soon 

 as dug. 



Spray the potatoes before the blight gets at them. 

 It may not do any good when the blight once gets 

 a start. Late potatoes will require careful culti- 

 vating and regular spraying throughout the month 

 to keep down weeds, conserve the moisture, and 

 head off blight and bugs. 



Pits in which potatoes are to be stored should be 

 looked over carefully in the fall of the year. All 

 openings planned for ventilation should be closed 

 and sufficient earth put on to protect from the 

 severest cold. The pits should be well drained to 

 keep the water from standing around them. 



In digging potatoes for storage, wait until the 

 vines are dead. Potatoes should be handled care- 

 fully in order that they may not become bruised, 



